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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-31

ST. LOUIS, March 30.-A special
from Rio Grande City, Tex, says:
Corporal Boyer and another soldier
were approached by four Mexicans on
the Government reservation at Fort
Ringgpld, on the evening of the 26th.
One OF the Mexicans opened fire, shoot
ing Boyer through the heart. The
other soldier hastily retreated. Three
Mexicans We're arrested last night on
suspicion. The surviving soldier de-
clares himself able to indemnity the
assassin.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-31
lIocs Not Apply to the Postal Ser.
Vice.

WASHINGTON, March 3G.-The Attor-
ney General has decided that the Inter
state Commerce Act does not apply to
the Postal service, but is a regulation
of commerce only, and that the Post
office Department is authorized by
law to send officers, agents and clerks
of the Government to take charge Of,
protect and distribute the mails, and
to search for and investigate errors,
frauds Oh crimes relating to them, and
such persons are unaffected by the
terms OF the Act.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-31

morning. One was named Emil
Borck, ten years of age, and the other
Gussie Borck, three years of age. At
tached to the coat of the older boy
was a card on which was written /:
Address of father, J. G. Borck, of No.
AZ Third Avenue, New York, to whom
the children were being sent. The
story of the elder boy was that his
mother had left her home and taken
the two children to San Francisco.
There she left them, and they were
taken in charge by BENEVOLENT people,
who placed them in an Orphan Asy-
lum. Their father heard where they
were and sent for them. They had
travelled all the way alone from San
Francisco to this city en- route to New
York.
Thrown Ont OF Employment.
PrrTsBuRG, March 30.-The entire
force of clerks in the transfer station
OF the Pennsylvania railroad, in this
city, have been notified that after the
present months business was finished
| their services would no longer be re-
| quired. Nearly 100 men, who were re-
| ceiving salaries from $50 to 1925 per
month, will be thrown out of employ
| ment by the abandonment of the sta
ton, which is believed to be II OF
| the first violent effects of the passage
of the Interstate Commerce bill.
| Heretofore all freight from either east
or west, passing from the main line OF
the Pennsylvania road to the main
line of the Pennsylvania Company, OF
| vice versa, has been rebilled and trans.
ferred in this city, but in the future
all freight will be shipped through tc
its destination without any transfer.
ring whatever.
, 1887-08-12
CONFUSION IN THE DESK.

How 1t May EasifS Be Avoided by =
Very Simple Arrangement
The confusion of an ordinary desk
drawer without partitions is not condu-
Give to the belief that its owner has a
place for everything and keeps everything
in its place, for unless the drawer is
packed full things won't ''stay put" A
carpenter can remedy the difficulty at
some trouble and expense, but unless the
owner cares for the looks of the drawer
he a with slight bother and no expense
quickly fix it for himself. An old n
velope box OF two will furnish all the
material; a stout pair of shears and a
mucilage pot will be the only tools neces-
sary. If the depth of the drawer is less
than that of the box, cut off the paste
board sides to fit. Then put mucilage
freely on the bottom of the box and its
sides that are to come next the wood.
Place it in the drawer and weight it till
the mucilage is dry.
If the box is too large, cut off as much
of the bottom and one side as desired;
bend the other side and end to stick to
the side of the drawer what laps over.
Small compartments for the ink bottle
and the mucilage pot can be made with
h corners of another box, enough of the
~pasteboard sides being used to bend for
the other two walls of the compartment
not made by the original cornor. A mar
row strip of old leather tackled to the side
of the drawer will serve to hold the ink
eraser, the s~tylographic pen filler and
other short articles. OF course, glue is
better than mucilage for fastening the
pasteboard to the wood, but mucilage
will serve.
All this is very simple, to be sure, but
you will be surprised to find what a con-
venience it will be if you nave only a fiat
topped desk and cannot leave your writ
ing tools on it with safety.-"R. L." in
The Writer.
, 1887-08-12

To an outsider it appears that the
best mining opportunities of the present
are to be found in buying up some of the
dumps which the Mexicans have virtually
thrown away. If modern mills will do
what is promised for them, there are big
fortunes lying on top of ground among
these hills. Americans who are here say
that these dumps will average thirty-fve
ounces.
At F~resnillo, above Zacatecas, there is
a dump made by throwing away the car
Donate of silver for 100 years. The ma
tives thought it was iron. The real char
acter of the ore has been discovered, and
work has been stopped in the mine while
the dump is been handled. The castaway
ore rum 1915 to the ton. This is al the
San Refugio mine, owned by the de-
%scendants of a Frenchman, Eduardo FL
Doey.
There may be more Of these dumps
lying around, and if there are, bonanzas
will be struck here some day without
digging. -Zacatecas Cor. Globe-D Demo-
Crat.
, 1887-08-12

The greatest alarm spread over the in
habitants of a great flat house up town.
Little Johnny Jumpup had found a box
Of his mothers arsenical lozenges that she
took carefully, three a day, for her COM
plexion, and he had eaten all at one sitting.
Servants flew for doctors, and doctors
flew for the flat. Every known remedy
for arsenic poison was administered. One
physician ratified off in his coupe to the
maker Of the identifying pills. In hasty
accents he related the case, and begged
to know what proportion of arsenic in
tested a box of his waters.
"Be under no alarm said the doctor.
Take the stomach pump out of little
Johnny. There isn't aparticle of arsenic
in a barrel of EN-. They contain IN
thing that promotes digestion and stirs
the torpid liver. %Johnny's liver may be
abnormally active for a few days, and he
can eat a paper of tacks with as much
confidence as if he were an ostrich; but
no further effects will be felt from my
matchless WATERS"
There is no arsenic In arsenical
lozenges them"
mot a grain; but women do banker to
take something with arsenic in. The
name is a great success, and my pills are
saving lots of ladies from the damaging
effects of a%rsenical solution and other
preparations of that fatal drug Pioneer
Press.
, 1887-08-12

According to a report of Consul Burch-
ard, of Ruatan, in Honduras, the pita
plant has never been cultivated, but
grows wild in patches on the borders of
rivers and lagoons. The stalks of the
plant contain the fiber of commerce, and
grow sometimes to a height of twelve
feet. The Indians scrape off the hard
skin of the stalk with a bamboo knife,
and thus obtain the fbers which form the
heart of the stalk. Another plan is to
steep the stalks in water until the skin
decomposes; but this is said to injure the
fiber somewhat.
In recent years machines have been
devised to decorticate the fiber, but these
have all been failures, owing to the fact
that no machine has yet been invented
capable of operating on a profitable scale.
In Honduras the pita or ''silk grass
fiber is used chiefly for thread, nets, fish
line and cordage. Samples of the fiber
sent to the United States and Europe
have been manufactured into lace hand
kerchiefs, ribbons and wigs. 1t is held
to be a substitute for silk or linen; and if
proper machinery were forthcoming, the
wild pita fields of Honduras might be
utilized in mme Consul Burchard
indeed expresses the opinion hat the
fiber is destined to become a very i'm
portant element in the future commerce
and industry of this country.-Scientific
American.
, 1887-08-12

l am at a loss to know why choir gal
leries are built above the audience seats.
Two reasons 1 should think would oper-
ate to make the reverse true. The air is
worse the nearer you get to the ceiling,
and sound goes up rather than down.
Especially do l wonder at it in Catholic
churches, where the singing is such a
prominent feature. Why all churches
want to have their singers get the bad
air is something 1 cannot understand. 1t
is really painful to sit in the high organ
lofts in the hot, breathed air sent up by
the audience, and when it m t. sing
ing, why it is like trying to lift yourself
by your bootstraps-you've nothing to
work on. l am surprised that the sing
ers do not take a more active interest in
this matter and agitate for a reform
Musician in Globe-D Democrat.
, 1887-08-12
WHY BOILERS EXPLODE.


A Boiler Inspector Explains His Theory
and Tells How to Avoid Danger.
Mr.. Carroll drew a diagram of a boiler
head in outline upon the table. ''It's
like this, he proceeded to explain slowly
and deliberately: '.Here's the water line
in this boiler. And he drew a mark
across tilg circle.
Now it is the opinion of boiler men
and other experts that the danger from
minute flaws and assures in the shell of
the boiler lies below the water line and
not above it. But l have reached the
conclusion that from these little flaws
that go undetected upon the most minute
examination, the entire danger is entirely
above the water line. Now, mark YOU,
l have found from long and careful OBJ
s%ervation that from rs to so per cent. of
all boiler explosions occur at about Z
O'Clock in he morning or about the time
when the engine is being started III.
And that most, if not wholly, the bal
ance OF the percentage happen at the
starting time in the afternoon. Every
locomotive blows up, you will perceive,
at about the time it is leaving the depot.
| was surprised at the discovery of all
TINS, inasmuch as at the starting time in
the morning boilers nave no more than
about seventy-fve pounds pressure of
steam. Ihat is not enough to explode, L
may say, the most defective of shells.
Then l thought it out and came to the
conclusion hat all of the danger lay
above the water line and from the minute
assures and punctures in the shell. 1t is
in this way: When the boiler is shut
down after n days work, the condensa-
ton forms a vacuum; but through the
little chinks and leaks above the water
line the air PUSHES in. In the morning,
when the boiler is fired up and steam
generated to seventy-five pounds, this air
cannot be elected as rapidly as the
forces it in. There is then in
the boiler go per cent. of water and 40
per cent. of air. The first revolution
thoroughly mixed the water and the air,
and at seventy-five pounds pressure the
air is expanded with great force, and at
this first revolution the boiler exploded.
TO remedy this every engineer in
Detroit is instructed, before starting his
fire, to pull his safety valve wide open
until steam is seen to come, through and
then shut the valve door and go on.
Boilers used for agricultural purposes
are very liable to explode in consequence
of taking water from n barrel through
neglect of seeing to it that the barrel is
kept full. If the barrel is kept full all
would be well, but it is allowed to be-
come empty or partly SO, and then the
pumps suck air, and when the air is in
and fully expanded the boiler must
burst. Detroit Free Press.
, 1887-08-12

The militarists of Europe have a new
fad. Having exhausted their ingenuity
increasing the size of guns for naval and
land siege purposes, and having per-
fected the field telegraph and field hospi-
tai service, no army in Europe is now
considered to be in a proper condition to
take the field without an abundant sup
ply Of pigeons. The pigeon loft is part
of the regular paraphernalia of every
German garrison now; the French APP
propriate large amounts annually for the
birds, and every government in Europe
is in the rae to secure the best carrier
pigeon service. The French, indeed, at
the siege of Paris utilized the birds con-
tinually, and quite long dispatches, COM
pressed into a small space by photograph
ic reduction, were sent, one bird carry
ing during the siege as many as 40, 900
messages safely. As the pigeons average
forty to forty-five miles an hour, it is APP
parent that they are of greater service
than balloons, since they possess the
quality of dirigibility.-Chicago Times.
, 1887-08-12
exlLes IN SIBERIA.


The Pardoning P~owsr-Escape Almost
Impossible-Numerous Inquiries.
1 was informed by a number of the
government officials in Siberia that the
exiles were not sentenced for life, but for
five years each. Just before the expira-
ton of his term of absence a report upon
his condition is sent TO the pardoning
power. If that report is favorable the
prisoner is permitted to return to Russia,
but if, on the contrary, the ~Ispravnik re-
ports that his frame of mind is not such
as to make him at present a safe mem
Der of the community, the poor wretch
is doomed to another five years term and
usually is sent still further away into the
wilderness.
In all the Siberian towns 1 found exiles
who had been in the country for various
periods and not infrequently those whose
terms had expired, but who still dwelt
there, as during their long absence from
Russia their homes had peer broken up,
their people scattered and nothing re-
manned of sufficient attraction to win
them from the rough lives to which they
had become accustomed. In the large
towns and cities, such as Yakoutsk,
Irkoutsk, Tomsk, Krasnoryarsk, Tobolsk
and Toumein, many of the larger stores
and hotels are kept by exiles Oh e~x-exiles,
and many have become valuable citizens
of that still undeyeloped country. Those
who are ASSIGNED TO Oriental Siberia ar
rive in Irkoutsk. the CAPITAL. and from
there are distributed to the more distant
noints. Some are sent to fine northern
and eastern towns. where they are per-
mitted to do about as they please, to en-
gage in business or in hunting and fish
inc, hut are NOT allowed to leave the
districts. Others are sent To the mines
of the southeast and to the island of
SagbaIien
EscaDe is almost impossible, for every
person in the district is r~esnonsible for
the custody of tbe prisoners. No one can
travel anvwbere without n road mass
which STATES where and how he is going
and. if to return. when. Anv individual
even the NATIVES. can ask Won for vonr
road mass and If NOT satisfied can causa
vour arrest, ShouId n n~risoner escone n
, 1887-08-12

Only the very darkest nights are Sc
lected by the Chinese fishermen in which
to catch the singular fish that the heather
prize so highly as an article of food.
The squid is about eight inches in length
and almost transparent. They are caught
in the following IN When the night
is very dark, the Chinese go out some
miles in the bay and then build a bright
fire in pans and station them in the bow
of the boat, and the fish being attracted
by the glare swarm around the boats and
are gathered in with scoop nets by the
ton. They are taken home and the women
and children give them a click and a
promise" in the way of cleaning and
spread them on boards, on top of the
houses, and out in the fields, where they
are dried. The fish are then packed and
shipped to San Francisco and to China,
where they are considered a great deli
cacy.-Monterey Argus.
, 1887-08-12

1t is no longer a question Of doubt
although the contrary was once believed
that medicines which produce violent
effects are unsuited to other than desper-
ate emergencies. In other words, hat
supor- potent remedies are calculated to
weaken and iniure the system rather than
reform its irregularities. Among medi.
cines of facilitating effect are cathartics
and c~holagogues, which copiously and
abruptly evacuate the bowels. Because
it does not do this Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is preferable to the drenching
class of purgatives. Painless in its effect,
it is sufficiently active to remedy chronic
constipation. 1t relieves by invigoruting
the intestines, and enables, not forces,
them to perform the duty imposed upon
them by nature. Promoting the secre-
tons of bile in normal quantities by its
beautifully stimulating effect upon the
liver, it is eminently conducive to diges-
ton, and contributes in no small degree
to keep the bowels regular.
, 1887-08-12

Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered
liver is misery. Indigestion is a foe to
good nature.
The human digestive. apparatus is one
of the most complicated and wonderful
things in existence. 1t is easily put out
of order.
Greasy food, tough food. sloppy food,
bad cookery, mental worry. late hours, IT.
regular habits and many other things
which ought rot to be, have made the
American people a nation of dyspeptics.
But Green's August Flower has lone a
wonderful work in reforming this sad bus
mess and making the American people so
healthy that they can enjoy their meals
and be happy.
Remember: Nc happiness without
health. But Green's August Flower
brings health and happiness to the dyspep-
tic. Ask you druggist for a bottle.
Seventy-fve cents.
, 1887-08-12

If you are suffering with low and de.
pressed spirits, loss of appetite, general
debility, disordered blood, weak constitu-
ton, headache, or any disease of a bilious
nature, by all means procure a bottle OF
Electric Bitters. you will be surprised to
see the rapid improvement that will follow;
you will be inspired with new life; strength
and activity will return; pain and misery
will cease and henceforth you will rejoice
in the praise of Electric Bitters. Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by w. N. Hunt.
, 1887-08-12

Is essential to good health; but at this
season it is often lost, owing to the pow
erty or impurity of the blood, derange-
ment of the digestive organs and the
weakening effect of the changing season.
Hoods ~Sarsaparilla is a wonderful medi-
cine for creating an appetite, toning the
digestion, and giving strength othe whole
system. Now is the time to take it. Be
sure to get Hoods Sarsaparilla.
, 1887-08-12

The manufacture of carbonic acid gas
is becoming an important business in
Berlin, where more than 1000 pounds
are made daily. 1t is put up in steel
bottles, each holding seventeen to eigh-
teen pounds, at a price a little less thar
twenty o NJ cents per pound. The gas
in a bottle when expanded occupies over
10000 cubic feet, and is used mainly in
making mineral waters and for beer en-
RineS.-Industries.
, 1887-08-12
OLD AGE.

Whatever poet, orator or sage
May say of 1t, old age is still old age.
1t is the waning, not the crescent moon,
T dusk of evening, not the blaze of noon;
1t is not strength, but weakness; not desire.
But its surCease; not the fierce heat of fire,
The burning and consuming element,
But that of ashes and of embers spent.
-IougfeIlow
, 1887-08-12
COMPENSATION.

OnA woman, in furs and v~elvets:
Another, in squalid rags;
One rolled by in her stately carriage;
The other. too on the flags.
One woman, alone in her carriage;
By the other, a little child
Who, watching the prancing horses,
Lookedup in her face and smiled.
She stopped to her boy and kissed him,
And gave him q boarded crust;
The other had Just left costly blooms
Where her one son lay in dust.
One, back to her darkened mansion,
Wealth cannot hold death at bayI
One, back to the hut where labor
Brought bread for the coming day.
Perhaps, as over the sands OF life,
Times great tide GIBBS and flows,
More fates among us are equal
Than their outward seeming shows.
ALI the Year Round.
, 1887-08-12
S\ceN H sSSbtsib is '9 si

thousands suffering from Asthma, Con
sumption, Coughs. etc. Did you ever try
Acker'J English Remedy It is the best
preparation known for all Lung Troubles
sold on s positive guarantee at 10c., 50c
DR.. w. n. Hunt.
, 1887-08-12
CLIO T H | N G
FOR

Each year our mail order trade in
creases. The people of the West are
finding they can save money by trading
with us, besides getting stylish and well
made goods.
We keep everything worn by man or
boy, and our goods are made up with
special care. We carry many garments
not to be found elsewhere in Colorado.
Garments for miners, cattlemen and
ranchmen specially adapted to their re-
spective vocations.
We cheerfully send our Fashion Gaia
loguo and Price List to any address; also
send samples and prices on application.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money re.
funded.
, 1887-08-12

Letter heads, bill heads and note heads
at the Leader office.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-09
- 49, ..szs.'ls.tszz
IthtS IN Eaxr Th-h.

OF all the changes which have taken
place in New York under the eyes of the
present generation, none is more marked
than the tremendous growth of the Ital-
ian element This element was very
small twenty years ago, and nearly all the
Italians then here were of the better sort,
speaking in a social sense. They induced
business men, a number of musicians,
some artists and few doctors. 1t was not
till after the war that the multitude of
all sorts began to pour in. Now they
swarm all over the thickly populated
parts of the city. The Sixth and Four
teenth wards, once mostly Irish, are
largely Italian to-day. They have over
flowed into the Fourth ward too, and are
Getting into the Tenth.
Their way of living, whether uptown or
downtown, often invites the attention of
the health department, but it does not ap-
pear that the mortality among them is
.reater than among other people in the
tenement sections. These children of
sunny Italy, whether men or women, old
81. young, can evidently stand great deal
of dirt, foul air and decidedly bad food-a
yooi deal of which comes out of the ash
barrels But nearly all are industrious,
and there some compensation in that
New York Cor Detroit Free Press
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-09
SHIPPING NOTES.

The schooner Kulamanu has been hove down
at the old Custom House wharf, to be cleaned.
The steamers IwaIani and KiIauea Hou will
both leave at o'clock this morning for Hama
kua. Hawaii, and the steamer Lehua this after
noon.
The schooner Leahi arrived February 9Th from
KeawaeI, Hawaii, being compelled to leave that
port owing to rough weather. She brought 545
bags sugar.
The American barkentine Discovery will leave
next Tuesday for San Francisco.
The schooner Ehukai brought PCS bags sugar
from Waialua, Oahu, February 9Th.
The schooner waimaIu will leave this morn
ing with 70 tons of coal for Kuau. Maui.
The bark Saranac, Captain D. B. Shaw, sailed
February 9Th at 43O p. m. for San Francisco, hav-
ing board 81, 2O3 bags sugar valued at $751;
s34 70.
The schooner Rainbow arrived February 8th
from Hanalei, Kauai, with 400 bags sugar which
transferred to the barkentine John Smith.
The schooner Sarah and Eliza sailed February
8th for Koolau, Oahu. While passing off Dia-
mond the little vessel was unable to make any
Roadway, owing to the stress of weather. The
steamer J. A. Cummins seen in the distance
making but very little progress. The Sarah and
The schooner Kulamanu sails to-day for Ko-
hola, Hawaii, and the schooner Luka for Kukaiau
and KohoIalele, Hawaii.
The schooner Nettie Merrill will receive a new
mainsail and also new main Dom, to be seven
feet longer than the old one.
The Hawaiian bark Lillian, Captain G.. B. HoI-
land, sails this afternoon for Hongkong, via
Bakers Island, GuanO Group, to land Captain
Holman and six of the crew of the late British
steamer Explorer (now the Hawaiian training
ship Kaimiloa), and also to land stores for
Mr.. J. T. Arundel.
The American barkentine' Planter, Captain
Perriman, sailed February 9Th at p. m. for San
Francisco, with 14,167 bags sugar TAO bags rice
and $50 barrels molasses, the cargo being valued
at $50. $40. When she left the harbor strong
trades were blowing, which put her at about a
13-knot rate, and before 4 o clock she out of
sight.